Meg Perlman

Thu, 06/03/2021 - 10:40

June 3, 2021

Meg Perlman, a curator who was the founding director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs and later the James Brooks and Charlotte Park Brooks Foundation, died on Tuesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City of complications of an aortic dissection that occurred in January. She was 71 and lived in East Hampton. An obituary for Ms. Perlman will appear in a future issue.

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